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...lawyers, personalities in the profession, and even quirks. The first section this week offers a sample of the range, with stories on how the U.S. Supreme Court works and the principal issues it will consider this year, on the president of the American Bar Association, and on the Gideon decision in Florida involving the right to counsel...
...hundreds of petitions from prisoners asking to have their cases reviewed. Many are handwritten on prison stationery, some are barely legible, most have no legal merit. But every now and then, one leads to an important decision. This year a handwritten letter from a Florida prisoner named Clarence Earl Gideon brought about a ruling that changed judicial procedures in several states and caused countless new trials in Florida...
...Gideon, now 52, already had a prison record when he was arrested in 1961, charged with breaking into a pool hall with intent to commit burglary. At his trial in a Florida state court, he asked the judge to appoint a lawyer to defend him. The judge denied the request, pointed out that under Florida law the court was required to appoint counsel only when a person was charged with a capital crime. Gideon conducted his own defense, was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison. When the Supreme Court ruled on his petition last March...
...Supreme Court held that a defendant's right to counsel in criminal prosecutions was not "fundamental," and therefore did not fall within the scope of the clause. In short, said the court, a state did not have to furnish counsel for an indigent defendant. In ruling on Gideon's appeal, the court briskly overturned the Betts decision, held that "in our adversary system of criminal justice, any person haled into court who is too poor to hire a lawyer cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel is provided...
Hilton's ego is as big as his house. He keeps the vanity press busy printing books praising himself, and his autobiography, Be My Guest, is in more of his hotel rooms than the Gideon Bible. A Roman Catholic who is relieved to be back in good standing after shedding Zsa Zsa, Hilton constantly composes prayers to the Almighty and has them printed in Hilton employee publications, likes to think that "God is a gentleman." His speeches are sometimes written by a Jesuit Priest, Father Thomas Sullivan of the University of Santa Clara, and at big receptions Hilton does...